procrastinator

procrastinator

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English procrastinate

English -or

English procrastinator

From procrastinate + -or.

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

procrastinator (plural procrastinators)

One who procrastinates; one who delays working on things.
Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.

Related terms

procrastination

Translations

one who procrastinates; one who delays working on things

Azerbaijani: ertələməçi, ertələyici
Finnish: vitkastelija (fi), viivyttelijä, kuhnuri (fi)
French: procrastinateur (fr) m
German: Prokrastinierer m, Prokrastiniererin f
Hungarian: elodázó, halogató (hu) (személy)
Polish: prokrastynator (pl) m (uncommon)
Portuguese: procrastinador (pt) m, enrolão m (Brazil, informal), enrolona f (Brazil, informal)
Serbo-Croatian: oklijevalo (sh) n, oklevalo (sh) n
Spanish: desidioso (es) m, desidiosa (es) f, procrastinador (es) m
Swedish: uppskjutare (sv) c
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: یارینجی (yarıncı)

Latin

Verb

prōcrāstinātor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of prōcrāstinō

References

“procrastinator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
procrastinator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016